Hog-scalder and feed-cooker.



' PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

J. T. ROBERTS. HOG SOALDER AND FEED COOKER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16. 1907. V

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dw m 5712027 2 Inventor I I Att orneys No. 887,964. PATENTED MAY 19,1908.

J. T. ROBERTS. HOG SGALDBR 'AND FEED COOKER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1907.

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Joneph Tflaberllij Witnesses Inventor v Attorney s rm-r NORRIS PE! RSca, WASHINGTON, D. c.

JOSEPH T. ROBERTS, OF ROSE HILL, ILLINOIS.

HOG-SCALDER AND FEED-COOKER.

Application filed January 15, 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1908.

Serial No. 352,431.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rose Hill, in the county of Jasper and State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Hog-Scalder and Feed-Cooker, of which thethe following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for scalding hogs and for cookingstock food, and has for its object to improve the construction andincrease the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

With this and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction as herein after fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corre-' sponding parts are denoted by like designatingcharacters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of theinvention capable of carrying the same into practical operation.

In the drawings thus employed :Figure 1 is a pers ective view of theimproved a paratus. *ig. 2 is a longitudinal sectiona elevation. Fig. 3is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the improved device is comprised a furnace 10 of suitableconstruction and having a receptacle 11 for the hot water for thescalding operations, or in which the stock food is to be cooked.

The furnace portion of the apparatus may be of any desired form or ofany required material, but for the purpose of illustration is shown witha sheet or plate metal shell having a grate 12, fire door 13, draft orash pit door 14 and smoke stack 15.

The receptacle 11 is formed with a flange 16 bearing upon the upper faceof the shell, so that the receptacle may be readily removed whenrequired. I

Mounted for rotation as by bearings 17 18 upon the shell of the furnaceadjacent to the receptacle 11, is a roller 19 having an operating leverhandle 20 at one end and provided with spaced chains 21 extendingtransversely of the receptacle 11 and detachably coupled by the endlinks to pins 22 at the opposite side of the receptacle. By thisarrangement when the lever arm 20 is moved into its outward position asin Fig. 1, the chains will be stretched tightly across the receptacle,and when the lever arm is moved into its inward position, the chainswill be slacked up and permitted to fall into the receptacle, as in Fig.3. Thus the carcass of the hog may be lowered into the receptacle orraised therefrom as required, as hereafter described.

A rod 23 is pivoted at 24 by one end to the shell of the furnace andterminating in a hook 25 at the other end for bearing over the arm 20when depressed to lock the same in that position.

Mounted to swing from the shell of the furnace by hooks 26 and eye bolts27 is a grating frame 28,, the frame being supported in elevatedpositionas in Fig. 1 byj ointed brace bars 29, and connected respectively attheir opposite ends to the furnace shell and to the grating. By thismeans the grating is firmly supported in elevated position, as in Fig.1, or foldable alongside the shell, as in Fig. 3. A similar gratingframe 30 is hinged by one edge as at 31 to swing from the opposite sideof the furnace and provided with braces 32 swinging at one end from thegrating and adapted to bear by their free ends upon a cleat 33 upon thefurnace shell when the grating is elevated.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows :The arm 20 is firstdepressed and the locking rod 23 applied, to hold the chains 21stretched tightly across the receptacle 11, and the slaughtered hogrolled against the grating frame 30 when in depressed position andelevated thereby and rolled over upon the chains 21. The chains are thenreleased by rotating the roller 19 with the effect of submerging thecarcass into the hot water, and again elevate it by reversing the motionof the arm 20 and again looking it by the rod 23 leaving the carcassupon the chains from which it can be rolled upon the grating frame 28.The bristles are then detached and the carcass removed.

When the device is to be employed as a stock food cooker, the chains aredetached from the pins 22 and the grating frames detached or lowered, asmay be preferred.

The apparatus is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured, and will be found very useful and convenient for thepurposes described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claime is In a hog scalderand feed cooker, a hollow sided furnace shell having a fuel door at oneend and an escape flue near the opposite end, said shell having a topopening of less width than the Width of the shell, a scalding receptacledetachably hung Within the opening and having laterally extended sideand end flanges resting on the upper Wall of the shell, a plurality ofchain supporting pins carried by the shell at points beyond one of theside flanges, a roller journaled in bearings carried by the shell atpoints beyond the opposite side flange, chains extending from therollers to the pins and detachable from the latter, an operating handlesecured to one end of the roller, means suitably mounted upon the shellfor engaging and locking said handle to hold the chains in elevatedposition, and

an adjustable grating frame pivoted to the 15 JOSEPH T. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

W. H. HoUsER, WV. J GoBEN.

